{"id":4056,"date":"2010-11-02T06:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T10:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2010-11-02T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T11:19:00","slug":"zoom-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=4056","title":{"rendered":"Zoom, zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/dgVHtA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Bell Aliant\" src=\"http:\/\/bell.aliant.ca\/images\/e\/Bell_Aliant_logo3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a>Where would you have guessed that Canada&#8217;s fastest consumer internet is available? Downtown Toronto?<\/p>\n<p>No. How about the 3 main cities in\u00a0New Brunswick?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Bell Aliant launched Canada&#8217;s fastest broadband service: <em>FibreOP 170\/30<\/em>, which offers, as the name implies, 170 Mbps download with 30 Mbps upload.<\/p>\n<p>The service will be initially priced at close to $250 per month, so it is clearly not for everyone, but Bell Aliant has a wide range of other broadband service offerings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High-Speed: 1.5Mbps &#8211; $34.95<\/li>\n<li>High-Speed Ultra: 7 Mbps &#8211; $39.95<\/li>\n<li>High-Speed Max: 13 Mbps &#8211; $49.95<\/li>\n<li><em>FibreOP<\/em> Internet 25\/5: 25 Mbps &#8211; $77.95<\/li>\n<li><em>FibreOP<\/em> Internet 70\/15: 70 Mbps &#8211; $107.95<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FibreOP\u00a0services and bundles are currently available to Bell Aliant customers in\u00a0the extended regions of greater Fredericton, greater Saint John and greater Moncton.\u00a0Bell Aliant does not currently use any kind of technical traffic management on their broadband network, such as\u00a0shaping, or throttling\u00a0and there is no download cap.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Bell Aliant\u00a0takes the title of Canada&#8217;s fastest broadband service away from Videotron, which has been offering 120 Mbps download (20 Mbps upload) service for about $150 per month. But we note that Shaw has been trialing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaw.ca\/NR\/rdonlyres\/C31FEBC1-DE35-445C-BA43-2C98178DCD34\/0\/ShawGigabitFeb17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a gigabit service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What are the applications that will justify these ultra-high speed services for residential customers?<\/p>\n<p>Will some people set up an informal\u00a0sharing group to power gaming, video streaming\u00a0and cloud based file services for their entire neighbourhood?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\"><strong>Update<\/strong> [November 2, 7:15 am]<br \/>\nA reader pointed me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novusnow.ca\/services\/internet.php\" target=\"_blank\">Novus<\/a> website, that indicates that it offers <em>Net 200<\/em> to subscribers in some Vancouver multi-dwelling units, an internet service with 200 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload. It has a cap of 750GB and costs $268.95 per month.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where would you have guessed that Canada&#8217;s fastest consumer internet is available? Downtown Toronto? No. How about the 3 main cities in\u00a0New Brunswick? Yesterday, Bell Aliant launched Canada&#8217;s fastest broadband service: FibreOP 170\/30, which offers, as the name implies, 170 Mbps download with 30 Mbps upload. The service will be initially priced at close to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=4056\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zoom, zoom<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zoom, zoom &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where would you have guessed that Canada&#039;s fastest consumer internet is available? Downtown Toronto? 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